Posted on November 12, 2010 by erica

My Upcoming Showses

I have several upcoming performances, including 3 this weekend. I would love to see you at any and all of these, so please let me know if you need help getting tickets, or if I can look forward to seeing you there. On a personal note, I’m really looking to being on the other end of this weekend and being a real person…who wears real clothes. All day, every day spandex is only so exciting. Come support our creative labours, starting tomorrow!

Friday and Saturday, November 12th and 13th, 2010
Spoke the Hub Dancing presents
“Gowanus Wildlife Preserve Showcase #11”

Featuring new dance, film, and music by:
Gabriella Dennery/Rhythm Works, VaBang! Dance Company, Chantal St. Gerard, Cara Surico, Sulai Lopez, Leah Friedman/Precision Dance

Doors 7:15pm |Show 7:30pm
Spoke the Hub’s Space on the 3rd Floor
Gowanus Arts Building, 295 Douglass Street, Brooklyn

Online via PayPal (or by phone): Adults $18 / Kids, Seniors $5
In-person Advance Purchase: Adults $15 / Kids, Seniors $5

TICKETS at the door: Adults $20 / Kids, Seniors $5
More information can be found here: http://www.spokethehub.org/whats-spinning/

Sunday, November 14th, 2010
7:00 PM at Triskelion Arts
118 North 11th Street, Brooklyn, NY 3rd Floor

WAXworks Showcase, $10
Featuring work by Randy Burd, Movement of the People Dance Company, Ilana Webber Dance, Austin Selden/Sarah Konner, Piece of Modern, Elisabeth Motley of DOORKNOB, and Albert Behar and the Movement

More information can be found here: http://www.wax205.com/calendar.php

January 14th, 15th, and 16th
Performing with VaBang! Dance Company at Triskelion Arts. News to come.

April 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
Performing with SINecdoche Dance Company at Greenwich House Music School. News to come.

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Posted on November 8, 2010 by erica

In the Studio with VaBang! Dance Company

I have been dancing with VaBang! Dance Company, directed by Jessie Feller and Julia Sabangan, for several months. We’ve been in the studio a lot lately, working towards two performances this Friday and Saturday at the Gowanus Arts Center/ Spoke the Hub in Park Slope. We’re also working towards our evening of dance in January at Triskelion Arts in Williamsburg. Here are two videos from our most recent process: a new piece from Julia entitled “Public Speaking”:

This one is five short phrases based on five different emotions. This was created at the Life in Motion Studios on 105th Street.

And this one was the same phrase, which we developed today at the Bronfman Center at NYU on 10th Street. It includes text, which I don’t know well yet, so I’m holding my “script!” It’s culled from a personal recollection of an incident that happened to me in Brooklyn. A random stranger said “OH MY GOD. THAT IS A HUGE, UGLY NOSE.” Emotions ensued.

I have 3 shows this weekend, so I’m a busy bee. I’ll post the schedule later, so that you can all come see!

xoxo,
Erica

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Posted on October 22, 2010 by erica

Introduction

Hi there!

I am beyond excited to welcome you to my new blog. Here I will share updates and musings that are longer than 140 characters (if that’s too many, I encourage you to instead find me on Twitter).

I haven’t exactly pinpointed what the purpose of a dancer’s website could be, but when my very talented friend Liora Barzideh at Arovel offered one to me I readily accepted. How fun to have my own little corner of the interwebs!

One thing that I am absolutely interested in is demystifying the dance-going experience for non-dance audiences. I’m hopeful that empowering audiences to own their experience can happen on a grassroots level, starting with me. Here is a list of other things I am interested in exploring here:

improvisation, arts in America, creative process, the dancer’s life in New York City, movement challenges, anatomy!, jewish innovation, inspiration, meta, semantics, mundane everyday life sort of things

and much more. And now I will leave you with something that has really inspired me this week, which is Les Slovaks Dance Collective’s Opening Night at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. I saw this live last night, and was impelled to go since I studied improvisation and contemporary technique with one of the dancers while at the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in Austria. These dancers have really re-imagined what folk dance can look like.

After the show, I tweeted this: No real words to describe Les Slovaks because only imaginary, playful, ubertalented made-up words would do the job. I’m moved.

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